aftertaste

Example Sentences

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That can leave the occasionally repetitive “Zodiac Killer Project” with a shallow aftertaste to go with its smarts.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

This vignette, despite the mishap, ends more happily than the others, but the evening still leaves a sour aftertaste.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

Depending on how closely you follow “SNL” and its notoriously hard working conditions, “Written By” has a similarly bitter aftertaste to it too.

From Salon • Jan. 16, 2025

She said the stench was so bad it felt "stuck in the back of my throat like a bad aftertaste".

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2024

The molasses tasted sweet, but with a bitter, black-licorice aftertaste.

From "I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919" by Lauren Tarshis